Written in the Stars:
A Wayward Home
(2025 -)
The Why...
Written in the Stars: A Wayward Home (2025–)
At fourteen, I stumbled into astrology—poring over charts late at night, tracing planetary movements with curiosity and determination. Yet, without mentors, advanced texts, or the internet, my exploration soon stalled. The libraries offered only shallow paperbacks on sun signs and romance, leaving me without the tools to connect astrology to lived experience.
Decades later, in 2022, a chance encounter reignited the spark. Scrolling through TikTok, I paused on a live astrology reading. The astrologer demonstrated what I had long sought: how celestial patterns translate into human life. In that moment, the research I began 31 years earlier found its missing thread. Since then, I have pursued not only astrological theory but its practical application—testing cosmic rhythms against real events, and transforming those discoveries into art.
This ongoing project, Written in the Stars: A Wayward Home, extends the methodologies I refined during my Doctor of Visual Arts (2015). Building on my earlier research methods (Our App Crashed), I employ action research and participant-experience strategies to test astrological claims made by authoritative voices, past and present, against real life. I track specific planetary conjunctions—Sun–Mercury, Mars–Uranus, Moon–Mercury—as they unfold, translating these alignments into artworks that capture both personal encounters and collective events.
The artworks themselves are the findings: visual metaphors that bridge astronomy with lived experience, revealing what it feels like to inhabit these celestial configurations. Using conceptual photography, I stage objects, light, and composition to embody planetary alignments. Each image corresponds to documented events occurring under those precise skies, creating a visual record of how cosmic influences ripple through our lives.
The works presented here are snapshots of a shared journey—artifacts of the dialogue between planets and people. Presented on a 15 × 15 cm photo block, the intimate scale mirrors astrology’s personal resonance—inviting viewers to step closer, as if peering into a private window onto the cosmos.
Next artwork to be released: Mars Venus Sun Alignment
A Rise in the Local (2025) is a photographic work that marks the precise moment of an astrological Sun-Mercury alignment. Through the foyer windows, streams of orange light from the Sun and violet light from Mercury shine, releasing their energy to stimulate local activities, communication, and domestic travel. A ghostly sailing ship hovers in the foyer, anchored midair with a fish market scene overlaid on the doors. The vessel is both messenger and cargo, an avatar of interactions, news, gossip, and rumour. The overlaid fish market is the economic engine and social arena where information changes hands as quickly as fish or money. The artwork operates as a world, an astrological learning tool and an energy forecast for the Sun-Mercury alignment.
A Rise in the Local
15 x 15cm
Photography on photo block
2025
What's your Emergency
15 x 15 cm
Photography on photo block
2025
What's Your Emergency (2025) captures the alignment of Mars and Uranus, channelling their combative energies into our environment and lives. Red (Mars) and white (Uranus) light cascade outside the foyer's two windows, showcasing the energy release. An old red telephone lay on the foyer floor of the home, its receiver askew, indicating a drama so urgent that it required immediate departure. The images on the wall juxtapose each other: the monochrome mural depicts a partial spiritual ceremony designed to harmonise the chaotic forces produced by the Mar-Uranus influence. Superimposed on this mural is a biomorphic image that resembles splattered blood ominously spilling onto the floor, thus emphasising a menacing effect. In this piece, I chose to portray the chaotic aftermath of an unforeseen mishap to underscore the volatile, fleeting influence of Mars-Uranus' energy. This force crashes into existence, leaving behind a deserted scene that echoes its swift, dramatic exit.
The relentless hum of the news cycle halts as a breaking news headline flashes on the screen. A figure thrust into the glare of public attention navigates a challenging Moon conjunct Mercury aspect in their Midheaven. Their career and public persona lie bare for the world to see. In Breaking News (2025), an old television set rests in the left corner of the room, and the words "Breaking News" blaze on its screen. Ahead stand four silhouette figures: a camera crew, a news reporter, and the interviewee, poised in anticipation, uncertain whether they are about to deliver a message or be subsumed by one. Meanwhile, a single cloud drifts in the foyer, an ephemeral symbol for the emotional weight placed on the individual and the transient nature of the news cycle.
Breaking News
15 x 15cm
Photography on photo block
2025